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decisions in both brains and ant colonies are based on thresholds that can be adjusted for either speed or accuracy. Understanding how these mechanisms work “will not only advance our understanding of collective decision making by social insects and individual decision making by vertebrates, but could potentially give us ways to design machines for tackling these kinds of problems. - Jawad Shuaib

Send random insults to random twitter users, all anonymously! This is hilarious - Jawad Shuaib

No amount of monetary or fiscal policy can fix the errors of the past. Global warming, declining commodities and water shortage will make this century our toughest so far. - Jawad Shuaib

Unprecedented causes lead to unprecedented consequences. No amount of monetary or fiscal policy can fix the errors of the past. - Jawad Shuaib

Fuel Feed is a free marketing tool that allows you to update your Twitter status with your website's latest news items. For example, you could use Fuel Feed to gather latest posts from your blog or delicious account and automatically post them to Twitter as status updates. - Jawad Shuaib

Discusses techniques that the average site can deploy easily to take advantage of viral marketing. - Jawad Shuaib

From Possum: This is what a hero looks like. Listen to her. "You are shooting at kids.. ..why are you shooting at them?.. ..There is no one to shoot here. - Jawad Shuaib

Thanks to the Internet, outsourcing is now available to the rest of us as well. I know of many startups and individuals, like myself, who have had considerable success outsourcing. I have integrated outsourcing as part of all ongoing projects - and recommend it to any individual or business that hasn't done so yet. When done right, outsourcing will save significant amount of time, money and stress. - Jawad Shuaib

"I personally recommend RentACoder.com and Elance.com for software projects. I have also heard some good things about YourManInIndia for hiring virtual" - Jawad Shuaib

From Possum: The israeli military rounded up 100 people into a house. Then they blew up the house. Killing 70. This is attempted genocide. Wasn't Israel founded to ensure the holocaust never happened again ? It is just so lopsided. Both sides are guilty in this, but Israel is just slaughtering people en masse. - Jawad Shuaib

Hi, thank you everyone for commenting. Competing with Google in Search does not mean providing the same service. It is easy to forget that Yahoo still commands a significant share of the search market and there is room for improvement. In fact, Yahoo! <i>has</i> recognized room for innovation. Their recent efforts to open up Yahoo! search to developers could be a game changer depending... more... - Jawad Shuaib from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I completely disagree with the author of this post as well. What Yahoo needs is strong and fearless leadership. Letting top quality talent like George Oates from Flickr only points to their lack of executive understanding of the resources that they actually have. Many of the services mentioned that Yahoo should get rid of are about the only forward-looking things that make Yahoo... more... - Chris Messina from FriendFeed MT Plugin

It seems more like they need a mission. Some simple and believable reason why this particular corporate entity should continue to exist rather than being broken up for spare parts. Mission then strategy then tactical choices that inform day to day work. - Adewale Oshineye

Hi, thank you everyone for commenting. Competing with Google in Search does not mean providing the same service. It is easy to forget that Yahoo still commands a significant share of the search market and there is room for improvement. In fact, Yahoo! <i>has</i> recognized room for innovation. Their recent efforts to open up Yahoo! search to developers could be a game changer depending on the reach. I can't help but compare Yahoo! to Apple in 1997. Yahoo! is facing the same challenges that Apple once did: (1) Poor product leadership (Terry Semel, Jerry Yang, Sue Decker and the board of directors) (2) Products that do not compliment each other Yahoo lacks focus. They lack cross-product branding. They are neither earning revenue advertising dollars off these products nor bringing back the traffic to their homepage. Focus and leadership is key to Yahoo's success. - Jawad Shuaib - Jawad Shuaib from FriendFeed MT Plugin

enjoy everyone! - Jawad Shuaib

What is Yahoo! doing to address its receding market share? The reaction has been disorganized at best. With Jerry Yang gone, the board of directors in upheaval, and employees demoralized after a round of layoffs, the company clearly lacks the bold leadership that it needs in this moment of crisis. Worse yet, the company seems to be everywhere at once, investing in a dizzying array of services that do little to enhance its search standing. To remain a profitable business, Yahoo! needs to refocus on the search market. - Jawad Shuaib

In order to survive and restore its position in the market, Yahoo! must undertake drastic measures and survival tactics. This article addresses Yahoo's possible revival. - Jawad Shuaib

In order to survive and restore its position in the market, Yahoo! must undertake drastic measures and survival tactics. This article addresses Yahoo's possible revival. - Jawad Shuaib

The nicest movie I have seen in years. - Jawad Shuaib

Office Karaoke Night! - Jawad Shuaib

wow, this is awesome! - Jawad Shuaib

This is genius at work. Andrew Wiles! - Jawad Shuaib

Researchers have shown repeatedly that individuals working alone generate more ideas than groups acting in concert. Among the problems are these: Throwing in an idea for public consideration generates fear of failure, and workers looking to advance their own interests often keep their best ideas to themselves until a more opportune time. - Jawad Shuaib

Naming something that people already believe in is very smart marketing. - Jawad Shuaib

“the world would have been no different if I had not been here the past six months” - Jawad Shuaib

Startups are founded by barbarians. But to survive the ups and downs, you have to make yourself into a Roman. The most talented entrepreneur I know nearly self-destructs on the 18-month birthday of each of his ventures. By that point a startup isn’t brand-new anymore, and it isn’t Google either. The closer you get to becoming a real company, the less glamorous reality seems: you’re grimy from clawing for money and breathing hard now from exertion, which would be fine if you could convince yourself you’re not the only one struggling. Everyone struggles. Keep fighting. - Jawad Shuaib

OMG! This is AMAZING news! - Jawad Shuaib

Third, Modha said that nanotechnology fabrication has advanced so far that he thinks it’s possible to build tiny brain circuits consisting of nano-engineered materials that can operate with the same energy efficiency as the brain itself. That means it’s possible to wire a mockup of the brain without melting the planet with all of the power it uses. - Jawad Shuaib

Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they're too busy looking for something else. Lucky people see what is there rather than just what they're looking for. - Jawad Shuaib

Amazing! - Jawad Shuaib

why limit it to Indians? - Ranjit Mathoda

yes, I would love to see more of this in other places. It is, however, best to focus on specialized demographics to take advantage of the unique local environment. - Jawad Shuaib

The Success of Google's Android and the Open Handset Alliance: This means that handsets will become more like PC's and wireless carriers will become more like landline DSL providers. This is a bold statement because both handset makers (like Nokia) and carriers (like Vodafone) don't want this to happen. So why do I predict a change in an industry where dinosaurs were surviving for such a long time? Because a meteor the size of Texas hit the wireless industry in 2007 and it was called the iPhone. For the first time in the wireless industry, the handset chose the carrier as opposed to the carrier choosing the handset. The product was so impactful and well designed that some carriers agreed to share 30-40% of their data revenues with Apple in order to have the device on their network. That could be a very meaningful $200 dollars to Apple. Why did carriers agree to that? Because the carriers did the math and the revenue share probably made up the customer acquisition cost that they no... - Jawad Shuaib